Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Ford continued to stay in the nation's headlines by doing nothing at all last week. As a "rugged individualist" he persisted in holding out against "robust collectivism" in the form of the NRA automobile code. He puttered around his northern Michigan camp, gave no inkling of his intentions, sneaked back to Detroit in the rear of a canvas-sided auto trailer. His friends said he was more concerned with his health than with the Blue Eagle. His critics called him a stubborn old codger who had never learned to cooperate with anyone...
...clock last Monday evening Sergeant Fulgencio Batista and other enlisted men of Camp Columbia, Army post where the revolution against the Machado regime originated, called upon their officers, politely asked some to submit to arrest, others to go to their homes. The officers complied. Sergeant Batista became "chief of staff" of a revolt which swiftly spread to Army outposts, to the Navy, to the rural guards. Under the full moon enlisted men rushed machine guns to significant Havana corners. Civilian Havana slept. No one was known to have been killed as immediate result of the new, non-commissioned officers...
...Samsoe of Perth Amboy, N. J.: the national smallbore rifle shooting championship: with 1,083 points in four events, to 1,079 for Thurman Randle of Dallas, Tex.; at Camp Perry, Ohio...
...fighters of San Juan Hill still on the active list. At that battle, wounded in the leg, he was treated by his brigade commander, who was also a doctor. They became fast friends. General McCoy married his niece, was his aide-de-camp in Cuba and the Philippines. The man was General Leonard Wood. Famed as a troubleshooter, General McCoy was sent to supervise the Nicaraguan presidential election of 1928, went to Manchuria with Lord Lytton's League of Nations commission...
...baby yak born in the Bronx Zoo was christened "General Hughjo" in honor of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson On his 85th birthday, August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, motored out to the Peekskill camp where he entertains 300 poor children every summer. There he listened to a little girl's speech of congratulations, read a telegram from his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, drank three glasses of stout. News photographers had his enormous birthday cake brought outdoors, snapped him plunging a knife into it. Wearied by the noise and excitement, Charitarian Heckscher wandered down to the swimming pool...